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Course reading tips: the spirituality of theology
At the college where I teach (which now has a new website), I take a small postgraduate seminar each year on contemporary theology. In the coming semester, I've decided to focus on "the spirituality of theology" (sorry, I'll try to think of a better ...
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Caption contest: the Archbishop\'s tea party
Okay, when Maggi linked to this, I just knew it had to be our next caption contest. The winner will receive a nice new book.Note: See also Bruce's disturbing Jesus caption contest: it'll scare the bejesus out of you. ...
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Why sex tells you nothing about what it means to be human
Halden posts a superb quote from Rowan Williams’ essay, “Forbidden Fruit”, in Sexuality and Spirituality in Perspective (1997), pp. 25-26:“What is baffling and sometimes outrageous to the modern reader is just this assumption that, in certain...
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Reading Barth with Rowan Williams (in Auckland)
I’ll be away for the next few days (blogging will continue if I have internet access) at a New Zealand conference on “Barth and Trinitarian Theology” – it looks set to be a great event, with about 60 people attending, and with papers by Bruce...
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Falling over things in the dark
Many thanks to Kim for his generous review of my chapter in the new book, On Rowan Williams: Critical Essays, ed. Matheson Russell (Cascade 2009). ...
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Resurrection: Piero della Francesca
One of the greatest artistic representations of Christ’s resurrection is Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection in Palazzo Communale of Borgo, Sansepolcro in Tuscany:Rowan Williams’ new collection, Headwaters (Perpetua 2008), includes a poem abou...
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Jesus and the immanent Trinity
“If God is neither a quasi-Hegelian organizing principle, nor an abstract postulate, nor yet an agent among other agents, what is to be said of him? Christian practice begins to answer that question by repeating the story of Jesus: what is to be sa...
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Once more with William Stringfellow
Okay, I promise this will be my last post on Stringfellow – here are some brief excerpts from four different essays on Stringfellow (by Stanley Hauerwas, Rowan Williams and others). Note especially the brilliant title of the second essay: “Speaki...
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William Stringfellow: freedom from death
William Stringfellow’s theological writing is pervaded by the conviction that the resurrection of Jesus frees us from the dominion of death. The world is ruled by principalities – by suprahuman, suprapersonal institutional powers which bind human...
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Two new books on Rowan Williams
Spending time with the work of Rowan Williams is a rare joy. It’s like the poetry of George Herbert: reading Williams, you sometimes feel as though you’re overhearing a private conversation between the author and God. Reading work like this is no...
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Rowan Williams: Christmas with Karl Barth
Today’s Telegraph features a Christmas meditation by Rowan Williams, focusing on Karl Barth’s critique of “principle”:“What [Barth] was warning against was the temptation of unconditional loyalty to a system, a programme, a ‘cause’ whic...
